I agree with you that that is a real consequence of the story, but it’s nebulous and wasn’t at all the intention of the author or the publication. These frat members, on the other hand, were directly and intentionally harmed by Rolling Stone’s irresponsible actions, and that harm wasn’t completely mitigated by a…

This is why people have trouble supporting this brand of Identity Feminism. A boatload of lies that make everyone involved look bad... and all they can do is say, “yeah, but they should still be punished.” Here is pretty much the only time, ever, one can say with a straight face and in all seriousness that this is…

This is about as clear-cut of a suit as you can get. The article made concrete accusations and claims which were determined to be entirely false.

“They may not have hurt this particular girl, but you know they’ve done some shady shit that they’re now going to continue getting away with because RS shit the bed.”

If I called you a child molester all over the media and made up a detailed and graphic story about your child molesting ways, only to retract that story later on without even apologizing to you, would you let that slide?

Do you have a source for that? I never heard anyone describe ritualized gang rape in any of the articles about it (other than the RS one).

Just because they’re a frat doesn’t mean that they lose their right to not be libeled.

*something* happened to that girl

It was injured for the period of time it took them to retract the story. People were insisting it was real for a pretty long time, and I’ve no doubt the frat and its members suffered while they were.

Remember when Anna Merlan, who is STILL reporting on this matter for Jezebel, called anyone who doubted the allegations a “loser” and a “wingnut?”

Her twitter account has been silent since last November.

There are 6 million people in Sierra Leone and according to the CDC, there were about 4,000 deaths from 8,700 infections. Somebody with better knowledge of demographics in West Africa can do the math for me, but evn if there were two additional teen pregnancies for each case of Ebola (which assumes two girls per…

John Candy’s career sort of died after 1994.

“She never said all blacks. She said blacks around the world. This implies a plural muber of blacks. ‘Blacks’ could reference as little [sic] as two blacks, depending on the context. It does not imply all.” Blah blah blah. Specious, stupid generalizations are specious and stupid no matter how you justify them.

#NotAllMen’ing doesn’t help a fucking thing.

Dude.

Note that virtually all the rapes in this story were committed by Black people.

Jonah Javad: Is a hot dog a sandwich?

Actually, you can tell he’s using a PS4 controller. At the very end of the video where it says “Dismiss”, you can see the button to press is “O” which is the PS4 controller’s button.

There also seems to be this article -